ANE extended stay – The Palette Project

Over the 6 years of landscape painting, I’ve explored different limited palettes – but not lately. I wanted to see if I could make Venetian Red look like vermilion. No such luck – give me Cad scarlet any day! I set up the red still life ( it was rearranged again after the photo but before the painting to take advantage of available natural light on both the still life and my panels.) These are painted on 9×12 carton sheets from Judson’s. This project would have worked better – and been less time-consuming had I simplified the shapes more – dang that ribbon! The color I felt that I was missing the most when working with the earth colors was, to my surprise, Indian Yellow. So useful!